Automobile hood bracket lamp



AUTOMOBILE HOOD BRACKET LAMP Filed May 12, 1931 27 INVENTOR. Z4AS'eZmZUwPzbWZO ,LJL BY ATTORNEY.

Patented May 10, 1932 SEBASTINO PIOMBO, OF SAN FRANCISCO, bALIFORNIA JAUTOMOBILE HOOD BRAGKE'L DAMP Application filed May 12, 1931. Serial No.536,726.

This invention relates to improvements in automobile hood bracket lamp,and more particularly to an adjustable bracket mounted inside the hoodabove the engine. to illuminate all parts of the enginewhen repairs oradjustments are being made. I

The object of the invention. is to provide a bracket for holding anelectric lainp bulb suspended above the engine of an automobile as" apermanent fixture, to be always ready, requiring only proper adjustmentand the switching on of the current.

' Another object is to provide means'to,

swing the bulb from side to side of the engine,

and adjust the bulb lon 'tudin'ally.

Another object is to provide a pivoted arm onwhich an electric bulb ismounted and means/to hold the ,arm in any position to which it mayswing, and to hold the arm securely when it is not in use.

.Another object is to provide a bracket of this kind of simpleconstruction, and one that is not expensive to manufacture.

Other objects of the invention will appear to those skilled in the artto which it appertains asthe description progresses/ An embodimentnf theinvention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which the .samereference numeral is applied to the a the hood broken away 5 same partthroughout the several views, and of which there may be modifications.

Figure. 1 is a of the front end of an automobile showingto show the lampbracket applied and mounted above the engine. Figure 2 is a side 'viewof thedevice partly in section.

V'-V of Figure 4.

Figure 3 is a plan of'the device. Figure 4 is a modified form of theinvention. I

Figure .5 is a detail section 'taken on line .Figure 6 is a plan of thedevice shown in Figure 4. V J K Figure 7 isa plan of another modifiedform v of bracket, the end of the arm being broken away. l

Figure 8 is an enlarged view looking from the right of Figure 7.

,a rounded end pin perspective view of a portion scribed form within thepurview of the am The numeral lindicates the hood of an automobile, and2 the top portion of an engme. p

The bracket comprises a hinge member 3 secured to the back of thedashboard 4 by screws 5.

The swinging member of the hinge has the upper strap 6 and lower strap7, the ends of which are fixed to the pipe 8 as shown at 9.

Telescoping into this pipe is the pi e 10, in

this instance having the turned out e gell to limit the outward movementagainst the turned in end 12 of pipe 8. On the end. of

pipe 10 is mounted the'electric socket 13, and

bulb 14. A reflector 15 is fixed to the pipe.

The modified form shown in Figures 45- and 6 shows a one piece arm inthe form of a tube 16 bent at 17, and being pivoted in the bracket 18which consistsof a single piece of metal bent around the 19 and 20, heldin place by screws 21,.

To hold the arm'in the different positions, 22 is provided, which snapsinto the drill point holes 23, by means of the spring 24 held pin- 25.To hold the clip 26 is. fixed to the The form of the ures 7 and 8illustrates another means of pipe and having flanges in place by thehollow 7 invention shown in Figholding the arm in any swinging position,so

and epends straight down so that it ma ring '31 which is fixed to thepipe 16 8E;

bend either way as shown by the dotted pos1- tions to snap over the topsof the notches,

' the resistance of the spring holding it in any notch. It will be seenfrom the above description that a very'practical invention, and and onemost convenient and useful to drivers of motor vehicles has beenevolved.

Having described my invention thus what I I desire to secure UnitedStates is as follows, but modifications may be had in carrying out theinvention as shown in the drawmgs and particularly denexed claims.

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y 1. An automobile hood bracket of the class described comprising anarm, a pivot bearing for said arm, an electric light bulb on 5 sa1d arm,a semi-circular mem er having notches therein, aspring fixed to said armhaving its end in engagement with saidnotches whereby the arm. moving.in either direction will snap the spring out of one notch I 7 10 intothe next.

' 2. An automobile hood bracket of the class describe d comprising atube bent at right' angles to form a vertical portion, and a horizontalarm, having an electric lamp at its outer end, a bearing bracket toreceive the vertical portior i, a semi-circular member fixed to saidbracke't notches in the upper edge of said member, a sprin fixed to saidarm having a depending flexible .end adaptedto en-,

gage -.the notches so that when the arm is moved in either direction thespring will snap from one of saidnotches to another. I SEBASTINO PIOMBO

